21st Century Retro: Mad Men and 1960s America in Film and Television
- ISBN-10
- 3839457211
- ISBN-13
- 9783839457214
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-04-30
- Publisher
- transcript Verlag
- Author
- Debarchana Baruah
Description
Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as a primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositions style invites discussions from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.
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